At least six people are dead from Sunday nights storms.

[naypalm]

MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) -- (06/09/08)-- UPDATED-- At least six people are dead in the aftermath of intense storms that battered Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

The National Weather Service issued thunderstorm warnings for 11 Michigan counties this afternoon, after storms blacked out at least 232,000 homes and businesses throughout the state.
Winds were clocked at 70 to 80 miles an hour in some areas and Genesee County Central Dispatch estimates it responded to around 100 calls of downed trees and power lines Sunday afternoon.
The severe storms dumped heavy rain and ping-pong sized hail on Grand Blanc Township.  Wayne Reger began cleaning up Sunday night.

"We were just looking out the window watching these locust trees bend with the wind," he said.  "We then heard a big snap and it busted the cars."
The storm split Jack Wilson's neighbor's tree in two. It then fell on his house and left him without power.
"A nice strong wind hit and it was a consistent wind and I heard it crack," he said.  "Saw it fall.  It was crazy."

Mother Nature left her mark in Ogemaw County as well.  Great line winds tore through businesses and toppled trees onto homes there as well.
The Ogemaw County Department of Emergency Management says no one was hurt during the storms.

Parts of the Fenton area were especially hit hard by the storm, bringing back a lot of memories of last year's tornado.
Many residents are thankful the damage wasn't quite as bad and that no one was hurt.

When the rain and wind picked up, Charley Young decided it was a good time to park his car in the garage.  But two minutes later, a tall pine tree landed on top of their garage, shaking the structure from its foundation and crushing the car inside.
Without power, Nicholas Mawhinney and his family have no choice but to leave.
"We're on a well and without power we don't have any running water so we'll probably go stay with our in-laws," he said.

Many businesses are closed because there is no power.  Residents are being told it will be restored tomorrow at the earliest.

There were no reports of funnel cloud touchdowns yesterday, but high winds toppled power lines and trees and cut off electricity to hundreds of thousands of customers.

Two people delivering newspapers for The Grand
Rapids Press drowned early yesterday after the road beneath their car collapsed and it plunged into a ravine near Saugatuck.
Elsewhere in west Michigan, two other people were killed by falling trees and a man drowned while tending to a dam. Authorities also say a Lansing-area woman died when high winds blew a recreational vehicle on top of her.

[Mudviper]

We had a storm last night?

[Yager]

In 2 hours I ran 7 trees down entirely blocking the road, two wires down and and a transformer explosion just in my 36 square mile township. That's 8x8 miles if it were a perfect square. Nasty stuff.

[94_xj_country]

i still have no power. im at the library right now  :evil: